Sociology 2259 Lecture Notes - Michel Foucault, Paroxetine, Medicalization
25 Apr 2013
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The legitimate processes of defining and treating deviants when. They persist in their deviance and it doesn"t go away by itself . Doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, as well as police lawyers, judges, church officials. Formal social control is in the hands of experts . They have the power to define deviance, create deviance, and make it go away. Unlike informal control which controls identity, formal control can physically control the body of the deviant. They can remove the body from the social setting and confine it to a total institution (prison, mental hospital) Docile bodies are those that do not resist control. Bodies are made docile through the process of formal social control. The out of control body becomes controlled. Those who crusade for creation and enforcement of rules. There is a m oral fusion between deviant and bad or evil. Moral entrepreneurs are the experts on the correct or good way to be.
